Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is a king in disguise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the essence of God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson